Improved



N.PEYERS, PHOTLITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEErcEO FREDERICK XV. HUDSON, OF LEOMINSTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

I'IVIPROVED APPLE-PARER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 37,038, dated December Q, i802.

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK W. HUD- SON, of Leominster, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, haveinvented anew and Improved Apple-Parer; and I do hereby declare 'that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying draw ings, making' a part of this specification, in

Which- Figure 1 is a front View of my invention, partially in section; Fig. 2, a vertical section ofthe sau1e,taken in the line xx, Fig. 1, Fig. 3, a plan or top view ot the same; Fig. 4, a back view ofthe saine.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

This invention consists in arranging the fork on which the apple is placed with gearing in such a manner that it will, by the turning of a crank, rotate on its axis, and also rotate in a circle in such relation with a knife or cutter that the apple will be properly pared, the knife being so arranged as to operate conjointly with the fork to effect that result.

The object of the invention is to obtain an apple-parer which will allow of the free discharge ofthe paiings from the machine Without the former coming in contact with any of the working parts ofthe lat-ter.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct myinvention, I will proceed to describe it. Y

A represents an upright, which is provided at its lower end with a screw, B, and two parallel projecting bars, c a, to serve as a clamp to secure the upright to a proper bench or table. On the upper part of this upright there is a circle, b, which is toothed at its inner edge, as shown at c, to forni a stationary gear. The circle b is cast with the upright Ain one piece, and at the center of the circle thereto is a horif zontal bearing, c', in which a drivingshaft, C, is 'tted horizontally, provided with a crank, D, at its outer end and with a bevel-toothed Wheel at its inner or opposite end.

Aspace of requisite width is allowed between the stationary toothed circle b and the Wheel E to admit of a circular disk, F, being interposed between them. This disk is fitted loosely on the shaft C, and it has a pinion, G, attached to it near its periphery, said pinion being allowed to rotate freely on its axis d,

and to gear into the ltooth c of the circle b. The pinion G also gears into a pinion, H, on the shaft C, and consequently when said shaft is rotated a rotary motion is communicated to the disk F; but the motion ofthe latter will be slower than that of the shaftGand the wheel E.

The disk F is nearly equal in diameter to the wheel E, and to the former there is attached an arm, H, which projects over a considerable distance beyond the wheel E, and has a socket or hearing, e, at its outer end, in which an arbor, f, is fitted and allowed to rotate freely. the bearing c and arbor f being parallel with the face ofthe wheel E, as shown clearly in Fig. 3. At one end of the arborj' is the fork I, on which the apple is secured, and at the opposite end is a pinion, g, which gears into a wheel, h, the axis t' ot' which is in the arm H. the pinion g gearing into the wheel E on shaft G.

The gearingE g h communicate arotary motion to the fork I, while the disk F, in consequence of being rotated as shown, causes the fork and apple to rotate in a complete circle the center of which is coincident with the shaft C. The fork and apple therefore have two motions, a rotating one on their axis, (the arbor f,) and,while thus rotating,a rot-ary movement in a circle the center of which is coincident with the center ot' wheel E and shaft C.

J is a arm, which is attached to a shaft, j, the bearings k k of which are on the upright A. The shaft j has a spiral spring, K, upon it, which has a tendency to keep the arm J pressed toward the fork I. lThe arm J projects over toward the fork I, and has a knife, or cutter, L. inserted in a,holder,LX, as usual.

To the upright A there is attached a lever, M, which extends up between the disk F and the circle b, as shown clearly in Fig. 4, and to the edge of the disk F there is attached a flange, Z, said flange being at the inner end of the arm H.

The operation is as follows: The apple is placed on the fork I when the latter is in the position as shown in dark shade in Fig. l, the knife or cutter L being in contact with the end ofthe apple which is at the inner end of the fork, the knife or cutter being kept in contact with the apple by the spring K. The shaft C is then rotated from leftto right, and the apple is pared when it has made about a quarter of a revolution around the center of the circle which is coincident with the wheel E. At this point of said movement of the apple the pinion G comes in Contact with thelever M and presses it outward from the upright A, so as t0 force the knife or cutter off from the apple, and before said pinion passes the lever M the `fiange Zconies in Contact with the lever M and keeps the latter out freefrom the apple and fork, so that thelatter may complete their revolution and reach the position to receive another apple for a succeeding operation, at which time the flange Z passes the lever M, so that the spring K may throw back the cutter-arm H to its original position.

Having thus described my invention,What I 

